| Prison Name: | Federal Correctional Institution, Big Spring |
| Location: | Big Spring, Howard County, Texas |
| Status: | Operational |
| Classification: | Low-security (with minimum-security prison camp) |
| Population: | 1,018 plus (114 plus in prison camp) |
| Opened: | 1979 |
| Managed By: | Federal Bureau of Prisons |
| Warden: | Chad Humphrey |
The Federal Correctional Institution, Big Spring (FCI Big Spring) is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Texas. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. The facility also has a satellite prison camp which houses minimum-security male offenders.
FCI Big Spring is located in the city of Big Spring, Texas, midway between Dallas and El Paso.[1] The town is also the location of the privately owned and operated Big Spring Correctional Center, which contracts with the FBOP to house federal detainees at four locations. Both FCI Big Spring and the BSCC occupy buildings and facilities repurposed from the closed Webb Air Force Base.
| width=13% | Inmate Name | width=9% | Register Number | width=5% | Photo | width=24% | Status | width=54% | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14536-045 | Now at FCI Englewood; scheduled for release in 2026. | Former pharmacist; pleaded guilty in 2002 to deliberately diluting the chemotherapy drugs of an estimated 4,200 cancer patients for profit; known as "The Toxic Pharmacist;" the story was featured on the CNBC television show American Greed.[2] | |||||||
| Dias Kadyrbayev | 95091-038 | Released in 2018 and deported to Kazakhstan.[3] | Friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, perpetrator of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing; pleaded guilty in 2015 to conspiring to obstructing justice for retrieving and disposing of evidence in order to impede the bombing investigation.[4] [5] | ||||||
| Juan Carlos de la Cruz Reyna | 98832-179 | Serving a 135-month (11.25 year) sentence; released into Mexican custody 19 October 2021.[6] [7] | Gulf Cartel leader who assaulted two U.S. federal agents in Mexico in 1999. He was convicted of assault in 2009. In 2012, he was convicted of bribery for attempting to pay off an U.S. undercover agent to arrange his release to members of his criminal group.[8] | ||||||
| Anthony Pellicano | 21568-112 | Released in 2019 after serving a fifteen-year sentence.[9] | Former private investigator for celebrities including Michael Jackson, Tom Cruise and Steven Seagal; convicted in 2008 of illegal wiretapping, racketeering and wire fraud. Later transferred to FCI Terminal Island.[10] [11] before being released in 2019. | ||||||
| David Duke | 28213-034 | Released in 2004 | Politician and white nationalist convicted of tax fraud.[12] | ||||||
| Leland Yee | 19629-111 | Served a 5-year sentence; released June 26, 2020. | Former California state senator charged with public corruption and gun trafficking. Subsequently, pleaded guilty to a felony racketeering charge in relation to money laundering, public corruption and bribery in a San Francisco Chinatown organized crime case. | ||||||
| Islam Said | 06597-509 | Serving a 10-year sentence, scheduled for release 2028. | Son of Yaser Abdel Said. Pleaded harboring a fugitive, conspiring to harbor a fugitive, and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice. |